More Potted Specimens Among Many Finds A Spot To Shine.

This makes two in two weeks. Had this ornamental grass for nearly
two years. It had since multiplied and since nearly out grown it's
confines to, another incentive to get in the ground, but not the
reason.

Most times I may pass a specimen and I will get a notion or
clear idea where this specimen will go. Then if it is strong
enough and enough to cause me to react as if it was meant
all along. That is when i act on that task and it gets done.
Just like yesterday, while sitting on my back steps eating
my first meal and knowing that where to plop this long
awaiting task to reveal it's self to me.

Dressed with some found concrete chips to help corral the water.
Even if this is the worst time to intern plants due to it being in
the middle of the dry season. I still have a fifty-five gallon drum
of rain water. Will just have to share the water with my the rest
of my thirsty plants.

Had this potted Lemon grass for at least two years. This year is the first time
that I took a couple of strands of grass to add it to my egg dishes. The fall
and winter colors of this grass can be striking. While transitioning this to
ground I cut it back severely but as you can see it's coming back well.

One More Rain Barrel For This Thirsty Lot

I even bought another drum last week to add to the other two, now
that I got the hang of the process of collecting rain water.

Painted white to help shade the inside and reflect our harsh Florida sunlight.
My so called process is all manual. I couldn't see poking holes in a perfectly
sealed container. Cuts down on leakage and keeps our mosquitoes out. The
upside, it gives me some exercise lifting a five gallon bucket from downspout
to the barrels and fun getting wet in the rain at all hours of the day or night.
It's amazing how it may be in the middle of the night and being a lite sleeper
to wake up to the sound of rain and dashing outside to capture rain I can.

Fast Food From The Bachelor Cafe

Lightly toasted sprouted bread, Smart Balance spread, yellow mustard and
some fresh Spinach. Fold over and you have a quick bite.

Not everything from my kitchen needs to be all that involved.

Pampered Cacao Tree Update

This Cacao tree spent nearly three weeks outdoors, that is until last evening
where I brought it indoors to escape our low fifties temps. Might as well
keep it indoors for another week to avoid some predicted low forties and
possible upper thirties temps.

As you can see by all the new salmon colored new growth that it is going
through it's own Spring spurt of growth.

Moon Gate In The Making

This old school Pyrocantha specimen would make a great Moon Gate. All
it needs is a stake or two to bring it into shape.

Volunteer Bald Cypress - Taxodium distichum Seedling Update

Where there were two, now there is one.

I've got a place picked out for this survivor. This
rare occurring seedling should make it through it's
first year, it should be smooth sailing from there.
That's assuming that it survives my transplanting
skills and who knows what else folly that both

nature and man can throw at it.

The other seedling that emerged along with this one
succumbed or perhaps only crippled by that ever
presence of dampening off fungus is still holding
it's own. That is, it's in some water, quite stunted
but holds a lot of hope in this aquatic nursery, (specimen
circled in red).

Spring Has Sprung Here In Central Florida

Along with the typical harbingers of Spring.

Our Japanese Azaleas are a blaze. This one in particular has it's architecture
exposed as I clear out the base to put in a proposed concrete pad.

Amaryllis are my Spring favorite, just beginning to bloom.
I have a ring of Amaryllis seedlings in the backyard that have yet shown a
first bloom.

There are four different types of Amaryllis here and all from seed, so
there is no telling how the variance's of the originals will be revealed
as they come into bloom.

This Paw Paw tree can be my new harbinger. This is my third attempt
to establish this American native fruit tree and this is the first time
that it's gotten through to a third season. The leaf buds are just
emerging and their color of dark chocolate can be deceiving and yet
one more sign of life renewal.

This mini Vanda orchid (above) and this old school Begonia (below) are
just two more flowering signs of Spring.